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Season 14 of the NBC drama will see the arrival of Sal Vasquez (played by On Call’s Brandon Larracuente), who will act as the catalyst for all kinds of changes within the team, executive producer Andrea Newman told TVLine.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Etsy's landmark partnership with OpenAI is a major catalyst for shares moving forward, according to BTIG.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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The company is also launching a video generator app — following a similar announcement from Meta — to rival TikTok and YouTube.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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In the past few months, ByteDance released Seedance, an AI video generator that many users are already calling the best in the world, and a new version of Seedream, an elite image model.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Those with multiple lanes of traffic are more complicated, and Bryson said, this is where there have been more challenges, with drivers trying to change lanes in the roundabout.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Pioneers head coach Robert Reeves mused that a majority of his players don’t even have their driver’s license yet.—
Frank Rajkowski,
Twin Cities,
27 Sep. 2025
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For a town that lives by horses and dies by the river, every drizzle is now a trigger.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes the trigger was academic research exposing the limits of certain techniques.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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To him, animal behavior was largely based on stimulus and response.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Oct. 2025
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The receptors in your hands respond to myriad stimuli-like pressures—vibrations in sync with 15 different families of neurons.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Hill has reached out to Darren Indyke, the co-executor with Richard Kahn of Epstein’s estate, for comment.—
Max Rego,
The Hill,
16 Sep. 2025
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This is a sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025—a sweeping conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government by expanding presidential power, dismantling parts of the civil service, and rolling back regulations across agencies.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Additional revelations hint of Kiri's evolving powers, the menacing Quaritch bonding with Varang to help defeat the Na'vi, a spectacular air/sea clash between the Ash People, the RDA, and the Na’vi, and Spider threatening to kill someone offscreen.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Tesla had a first-mover advantage in China in 2013, leveraging the government’s support of EVs with subsidies and incentives and its production base and opening a gigafactory in Shanghai in 2019.—
Rebecca A. Fannin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Livermore and Alameda officials unsuccessfully offered their own tax incentive packages.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Activator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/activator. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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